Welp, I gotta hand it to him on this one, he's not wrong

It's too much moron.

"It's too much liquid."

As always, the thing where Trump's underlings try and construct a superficially plausible rationale for something, and all he's got to do is stand up and read it out, and instead he says stuff like "They're filling your baby full of demons. You should punch your doctor. Lemsip makes you gay."

A mrurder of cows

This list actually makes perfect sense once you see that this is thankfully not some kind of Telegraph attempt at a best-of but the author Simon Ings (CITY OF THE IRON FISH &c.) documenting his personal canon, and even having read relatively little Ings one is like, yes of course

‘It’s from the same school of dark – let’s call it beyond the pale – humour as TV programmes such as The League of Gentlemen. English niceties become a coffin lid that creaks open to reveal something horrifying.’ Emily Berry on Ben Pester’s surreal fiction: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I think the wholesale corruption of the office of the presidency is a small price to pay for ending the hundred year war between Cambodia and Armenia

19.09.25: Inside a 1st Class compartment on the Severn Valley Steam Railway, Bridgnorth to Bewley. We had a brief interlude on a two-coach rattletrap diesel shuttle & came back by 3rd. Niche & comforting.

christ

Are *you* downplaying your tv truth?

I always thought of myself as a bit of an anti-social person, but reading about how people use AI makes me feel like one the world's great lovers of humanity and of living life.

Watching a movie that's better than its own assumptions & subject matter. Fascinated by that.

I just put a long paper definitely 100 per cent written by a human into the first stupid AI detector on Google search and it said it was 97% AI. Absolutely ridiculous situation all of us are in.

‘One of the questions that has hung over this whole conversation is about the void at the centre of the Labour party.’ — James Butler (@piercepenniless.bsky.social) on his new On Politics podcast. Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...

TEoE copyedit's done.

Please untick this box if you don’t not want to can’t do this.

I heard "unfortunately you can't not do this thing in fiction" & have been determinedly not doing it since

anyone know where this is

'Dogs in the Park, Kensington Gardens' by Nicholas Hely Hutchinson nicholashelyhutchinson.com

'Masterpiece... you might just have found your new favourite author' #TheCourseOfTheHeart by @mjohnharrison.bsky.social, reviewed in the Big Issue. This new edition of Harrison's cult novel, featuring an introduction by Julia Armfield, is out now. www.bigissue.com/culture/book...

I like gorges. Nothing makes me feel momentary and meaningless like a good gorge. Watkins Glen, New York, US

I keep looking out at the wind & the rain & shivering & then thinking: No, you aren't feeling that yet. Not just yet. But you will be soon.

M: C: It's just a very large sausage roll you're stuffing into your head. In that very inelegant fashion. M:

This👇 and just what are Guys & St Thomas management .. the present CEO is a certain Amanda Pritchard formerly nhse ceo, trust board, NHSE & DHSC going to do to protect frontline nhs staff exposed to this intimidation??

Trump & Starmer in the room together. Morons of disaster.

The Labour party's ridiculous attempt to lick the arse of its enemies is responsible for all this. Out of their depth even as second-raters, and as committed as the Tories to Get In At All Costs Then Don't Know What To Do politics.

Dragos-Radu Dumitrescu

sometimes when I'm tired & overanxious, I type "evolutionary history of reptiles" into Google & open the results at random & become calmly absorbed by it all

Placeholder page for next year's novel-- ambientehotel.wordpress.com/a-new-novel-...

My mantra.

Tcikets. Tcikets for the Steam Fair.

help, I can't not write

C's eating a bagel. She's bottling the sloe gin. There's going to be a lot of it, she says, this year. It's stopped raining, but the scaffolding's going to stay up until November. Friday we have tcikets for the Steam Fair.

Never knowingly understood.

shelved in the linguistics of the cold case narrative

The investigation drags on.

"Questions linger" about a thing that happened three or four days ago, I see. These vast spaces of media time. Empires have risen & fallen but still the questions linger.

"See what we're loving for Autumn." John Lewis

Goodnight.

Good morning from Harlem #GoodMorningFromHarlem

Watch the wall to wall coverage end now that the call is coming from inside the house. Alas. Onward.

President Main Character is moving on

the permission structure created for a bloodthirsty maga rampage the last two days by mainstream media, all before any facts were known at all, deserves some real introspection by the entire industry

We have just seen it raining on one side of our garden & bone dry on the other. Raining through bright sunshine, for two or three minutes. The rain didn't move across and away. It just stopped suddenly. The sun stayed out.

The original batch of these sold out really quickly so I'm just seeing if there's an appetite for a second run somewhere around late October, so that you can buy them in time for Christmas gifts? Let me know and if there's enough interest then I'll work on getting some done by then :). #Photography

this morning's vibe pic by Cath

new post on the blog--https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/18659/